Das Leben einer Gruppe von Menschen, die zufällige Zeugen eines brutalen Gewaltakts werden, wird dadurch fatal durcheinander gebracht. Als da sind: eine schöne russische Putzfrau, ein charakterloser Krimiautor, ein Profikiller, eine gelangweilte Hausfrau - und Jackson Brodie.

Informationen zum Autor KATE ATKINSON is one of the world's foremost novelists. She won the Whitbread Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum . Life After Life , an acclaimed BBC TV series, won several prizes including the Costa Novel Award, as did A God in Ruins . Two further historical novels Transcription and Shrines of Gaiety - were also Sunday Times bestsellers. She has published two critically acclaimed collections of short stories: Not the End of the World and Normal Rules Don't Apply . Her bestselling literary crime novels featuring former detective Jackson Brodie, Case Histories, One Good Turn , When Will There Be Good News? and Started Early, Took My Dog , became a BBC television series starring Jason Isaacs. Jackson Brodie later returned in the novel Big Sky and the most recent, Death at the Sign of the Rook , was a number one bestseller. Kate Atkinson was awarded an MBE in 2011 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. For information about Kate's books, including her Jackson Brodie series, visit www.kateatkinson.co.uk Klappentext Featuring the popular protagonist Jackson Brodie from Atkinson's last bestselling novel, "Case Histories", this is a superior detective story with a cast of unusual characters. "Case Histories" sold over 300,000 copies in paperback, and her first novel "Behind The Scenes At The Museum" won the Whitbread Book Of The Year Award. 'Atkinson, while having fun with the murder- mystery genre, slyly slips us a muted tragedy.' "Sunday Telegraph" Zusammenfassung Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander - until he becomes a murder suspect. As the body count mounts, each member of the teeming Dickensian cast's story contains a kernel of the next, like a set of nesting Russian dolls.

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KATE ATKINSON is one of the world's foremost novelists. She won the Whitbread Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Life After Life, an acclaimed BBC TV series, won several prizes including the Costa Novel Award, as did A God in Ruins. Two further historical novels Transcription and Shrines of Gaiety - were also Sunday Times bestsellers. She has published two critically acclaimed collections of short stories: Not the End of the World and Normal Rules Don't Apply.

Her bestselling literary crime novels featuring former detective Jackson Brodie, Case Histories, One Good Turn, When Will There Be Good News? and Started Early, Took My Dog, became a BBC television series starring Jason Isaacs. Jackson Brodie later returned in the novel Big Sky and the most recent, Death at the Sign of the Rook, was a number one bestseller.

Kate Atkinson was awarded an MBE in 2011 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

For information about Kate's books, including her Jackson Brodie series, visit www.kateatkinson.co.uk

Klappentext

Featuring the popular protagonist Jackson Brodie from Atkinson's last bestselling novel, "Case Histories", this is a superior detective story with a cast of unusual characters. "Case Histories" sold over 300,000 copies in paperback, and her first novel "Behind The Scenes At The Museum" won the Whitbread Book Of The Year Award. 'Atkinson, while having fun with the murder- mystery genre, slyly slips us a muted tragedy.' "Sunday Telegraph"

Zusammenfassung
Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander - until he becomes a murder suspect. As the body count mounts, each member of the teeming Dickensian cast's story contains a kernel of the next, like a set of nesting Russian dolls.